'Return'

After three days, Uraraka Shige finally managed to add this skinny little guy to the 'group'...

The price to pay is that once this skinny little guy's surveillance period ends, if he can be transferred to Area A, I'll have to use my 'Quirk' to help him grow faster as a sacrifice...

Of course, the matter of joining his 'group' was only a verbal promise; the specifics would only be implemented after this guy transferred to Area A.

In addition, during their conversation, Uraraka Shige and this guy exchanged some basic information about each other, although it was all trivial information, such as name, gender, and exercise methods.

... After all, there are many other people being disciplined in the surrounding 'special rooms,' so it's not convenient to disclose more detailed information...

But at least we now know this skinny little guy's name is Kurasu Rikizo, and his 'Quirk' —which allows him to store his muscles and strength like items in a warehouse, ready to be used at any time—seems quite fitting...

So, before I knew it, half of the month of hardship in the 'single room' had passed, leaving only a dozen days or so, or about two weeks.

In the following days, Uraraka Shige mainly focused on continuing her training while also talking to the petite and slender Kurasu Rikizo, who possessed a strong 'Quirk,' and trying to build a good relationship with him.

And so, another five days passed in the blink of an eye.

The day was actually pretty much the same as any other; nothing particularly special should have happened.

In reality, at noon, four guards escorted another person under supervision to a 'special cell'.

And this person under supervision was someone that Uraraka Shige knew... or rather, someone he was somewhat familiar with—the person who had spoken with Uraraka Shige most in the 'special room' closest to him, excluding their conversations over the past five days.

That guy who always goes out of his private room, causes some trouble, and then comes back to it.

Clearly, this guy was very familiar with the environment of the 'single room' and 'special room'. After being brought back in, it only took a few moments before he started chatting enthusiastically with some of the other inmates around him.

Even though it was quite a distance from where Uraraka Shige was, and Uraraka Shige was mostly focused on developing his 'Quirk,' honing his physique, and building a good relationship with Kurasu Rikizo.

However, the sounds of their heated conversation still reached Uraraka Shige from afar, allowing him to inadvertently overhear words such as 'beaten severely,' 'unconscious,' 'crippled,' 'no way to help,' and 'send back.'

Judging from what I've heard about that guy's past actions, it's clear that after returning to the regular area, he spent several days selecting a victim, preparing some things, and then severely beat the victim. As a result, he was once again sent back to this "special cell" area by the "officials" of this Discipline Prison.

Are you really bothered by that guy over there?

As Uraraka Shige made this judgment, he seemed to reveal some flaw, which was noticed by Kurasu Rikizo, who was talking to him.

So Kurasu Rikizo asked Uraraka Shige in a very strange tone.

If Kurasu Rikizo were a woman, this question would undoubtedly be a minefield, a question that could be considered a death sentence.

Although Kurasu Rikizo is actually male, and Uraraka Shige's sexual orientation is normal and he has no intention of pursuing him, Uraraka Shige's desire to Kurasu Rikizo, and even to have Kurasu Rikizo join the 'group' he will establish in the future, is also genuine.

Therefore, when facing this problem with this thin and small guy, Uraraka Shige naturally had to try her best to avoid this minefield.

Moreover, Uraraka Shige himself doesn't care about that guy, so he won't trigger any landmines. Therefore, when faced with this issue, he only needs to tell the truth.

"I don't really care, but now that he's back, it means there'll probably be another victim in the area he was assigned to, right? And who knows, maybe he'll suffer some lifelong aftereffects..."

Uraraka Shige seemed to show some sympathy for the victim he knew nothing about, completely forgetting that when the scales in his heart were overtaken by anger and anxiety, he had killed the Gray Rat Society thugs in a fit of rage.

Although those thugs had long lost all hope in life and were utterly morally corrupt, even going so far as to commit acts that violated morality and gangster rules by gangting together just to kidnap a little girl, one could basically say that they had met their demise in a righteous way.

"So..."

Kurasu Rikizo said he understood, and then fell silent again.

The same applies to Uraraka Shige.

It can be said that after living in a 'single special room' for half a month, Uraraka Shige has gradually become less good at communicating with people. In particular, he has had very little time and frequency of conversations with people in the past half month. And in the last few days, the person he has frequently communicated with is Kurasu Rikizo, a guy who is focused on improving his own strength and is not good at communicating with others.

After that, the guy who returned to the 'single room' no longer had any impact on Uraraka Shige.

And so time continued to slip away quietly.

For the next few days, Uraraka Shige spent his time talking with Kurasu Rikizo and sweating profusely in their respective "special rooms" while training.

Occasionally, Uraraka Shige Chong would join in the conversations between the other inmates, and the inmates were quite welcoming. Even some of the less disciplined guards who wanted to join their chatter were also welcomed by many of them.

On the contrary, Kurasu Rikizo, apart from training himself and having a few conversations with Uraraka Shige, hardly did anything that could be considered as communicating with others.

Then the remaining two weeks passed by unnoticed, and Uraraka Shige's 'single special room' observation period ended, and he was returned to Area A.

The only impression that this period of life in the 'special room' left on Uraraka Shige was that 'single rooms' weren't always so unbearable...

And he was successfully persuaded to summarize his ordeal in the solitary Discipline Prison as simply a result of not being used to it yet...

In his opinion, at least there's an adjustment period for this thing!

PS2: Also... is nobody reading the 'Author's Note'? By the way, have you all seen that part? Meow meow meow? sobs coo coo +1s +1s +1s?